That feeling of youthfulness may have to do with how often the Poms engage their minds and bodies. They practice three times a week and frequently learn new choreography. They perform impressive moves like the splits and high kicks.

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Most of the members never danced or cheered until they retired.

“Being in the Poms, I think you really have to push yourself,” Nancy Walker, 64, told Wolfe. “You have to get out of your comfort zone and do something you didn't think you ever could do.”

These cheerleaders have experience taking on big challenges—many of the Poms once had careers in fields like electrical engineering and teaching.

Their loved ones, though, might have been skeptical of cheerleading later in life.

Pat Weber, 82, said her husband forbid it: “He said, ‘Over my dead body,’ so I thought, well, all right I don't want to rock the boat, I just won't do it.' And then shortly after that, he passed away...so I came and joined the Poms.”